St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-03-07
DAKOTA DOES AND DASHES.
news Notes of Interest TO the People
OF lie & rent Ce rriiarx.

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Young man named Kells came out from
hudson, N. y, about five years ago, the
son OF wealthy parents, his mind absorbed
| with the attractions of seQuestered life in
| hunting and trapping. He built a good-siZed
! hut or mud shack on the James river near
the village OF Dickey, in the south part of La
| Moure county. With an associate he has
| lived there ever since, trapping beaver, otter
and mink, and hunting foxes, squirrels,
wolves and other fur animals, and shipping
large numbers of the furs East. In the past
three weeks he has trapped thirty-nine beaver
alone He relates that his method of CATCH
Ing them in the winter is to cut hole in the
ice of the river, fasten mis- trap, baited with
birch bark, leaving 1t there day, when he
cuts out the hole that has frozen up and gen.
| orally takes out beaver fast in the trap and
| drowned. He says that last year beaver
caught by the leg in the trap, cut the leg off
and escaped, leaving the amputated limb.
| Recently The same animal was again caught,
! having but three legs. The beavers have
covers dug ont in the banks above the water
| level. and opening under the water, keeping
| out the cold. This hunter has never extended
over twenty miles from his base of operations
and has made great deal OF III ,ney.
| One day last week j. Anderson. in driving
| from Dunbar TO Harlem. IN Sargent county,
was held up by four highwaymen who de-
manded his money and the contents of his
sleigh. He was disposed at first to accade to
the demand. but observing that they were
amateurs and bungers who did not show any
pistols. he made believe as if he had one and
| told them 10 get out of the way or he would
shoot. They stepped back q few PAGES and
he dashed his horses, but they saw his trick
and pursued with knives and threats. But
the horses were too fast for them. Su CHI in
cidents are as rare in Dakota as in any state
Nowhere is travelling more free from such an
noyances.
A newspaper crank in Clay county, with
Rev. Ru ha lipr
declaration that the path to Dakota statehood
is INSTRUCTED by rum, Democracy and New
England" 1t was Republican senator from
Maine who INSTRUCTED Dakota statehood iu
the Forty-Seventh congress.an it is difficult to
find any serious effort by that party since to
admit Dakota state.It the Democrats in con-
gress have not favored the movement as they
should. they have had ample company from
the Republican side OF the house.
Groton has a fine Sunday school and good
business man Is superintendent, but he can't
pray-the president of the college has always
done that for him-but last Sunday the latter
was sick and the good superintendent could
find no one in the school to help him out. He
started in desperately on the Lords prayer
and got into the second paragraph when he
stalled-could not think of another word--and
cut short with. 90 Lord. Thou knowest the
rest and we DON'T" He is trying to learn it.
AS preachers do not exaggerate the state
ment OF Rev. B. j. Kelly, at Springfield, in re-
gard to late blizzard, may be taken as q
literal fact. He says he started from the
hotel to go to his house, about four blocks
lost his way and roamed about the suburbs OF
the town for time and finally found his way
back to the hotel, where he remained over
night rather than venture out again.
The Yankton Herald, which is not given to
looseness Of statement, says Auditor Cald-
we'll retres from office with record of hav-
ing permitted more fraudulent vouchers to
Slip unchallenged through his hands than any
OF his predecessorS-and that he never Ques-
toned the justice of single claim. There
may be chance for Nj. Caldwell to raise an
issue with the Herald.
The New York Police Gazette gives pictor-
ial fame to the elopement of Mrs. Myers, of
Sargent county, with Paul Medsdorf, whose
joint felicity had its terminus at Fargo.
Neither of the parties wonld ever be arrested
on the strength Of the portraits. They have
probably done duty for Spies and Van Zandt
A branch of the Salvation army has secured
the opera hoIse at Hillsboro for Il religious
campaign. 1t is ruInored that Col. Plummer.
the oratorical Boanerges of the North is to
have part in the work. He has been re-
claimed Of late, since he was not elected TO
the legislature and gave up making Blaine
speeches.
The recent burning of the store of Nc
Donal Ensign at Cando, in Tower county,
was the first fire the place has ever had and
was evidently the work of an incendiary
The loss was covered by insurance and the
building will be replaced by better one
Public opinion at Pemblna is divided over
the case OF Cyrus Strong, who has been
bound over for trial on the charge of incest
The girl is but 16, and her character lead
many to believe her father not guilty of the
damning aSperSiou.
Several towns are trying to inaugurate
starch factories. Potatoes, it is claimed, can
be grown for about 20 cents Il bushel, and $50
to 300 bushels to the acre, and consequently
they can proftably be used for starch.
A Pierre paper is not entirely happy in its
statement that there is no more danger of q
flood at that point than there is upon Mount
Ararat, as il is believed the waters did at one
time cover that elevation.
The Office of the Fargo Insurance company
at Sioux Falls has been closed and the appur-
tenances sold at auction, and the men who
wrecked it are now able to travel in style.
At the revival meeting at Webster, in Day
county, the converts are SAID to number
about 100. The entire community has been
remarkably stirred.
Parker in Turner county has tried prohi-
bition year, and claims to have money in
the treasury and to be satisfied with the ex-
perience.
H. L. Henry, the editor of the Redfeld Dis
patch, recently sustained a severe loss in the
death of his excellent wife. She left four
children.
The attempt TO establish u daily at Kimbal.
in Brule county, has not proved a succ ess
but the place has two excellent weeklles.